Anne Reemann

It's the summer of 1990. The Soviet Union is teetering on the verge of collapse, while the little Baltic nations struggle to take back their lost independence. The Soviet Union's basketball championship is set to begin on the backdrop of a deeply divided society. The Estonian team Kalev faces a momentous decision. With Estonian independence seemingly within reach, a rising tide of public opinion opposes the Estonian national team's participation in the USSR's championship. That would contradict the people's aspirations for liberation. As professional athletes, the team makes the unpopular choice. The championship games start.

A short film about a little boy Otto, whose parents had promised him a dog for his tenth birthday - before they suddenly passed away. When Otto sees a falling star the evening before his birthday, he wishes upon it one more time, but realises then that the bright object is falling into the forest behind his grandma's house. When the hatch of the rocket opens, a little dog exits with the name Laika engraved on his collar. But knowing that his grandma is wary of dogs, the worried child stays in the forest with the dog.

Andres is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian town. He is being bullied at school and his only friends are the drunkards, whores, and thieves living next door.

A humoristic coming-of-age story of Johannes who is born prematurely to a very young single mother. His destiny is to be always separated from his loved ones, to be “different”, to lose his hair because of pollution and to fall in love with a Chechen girl. All this during the turbulent times of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In this third film of the series of Lotte films that children know and love, the spirited girl dog Lotte gets a little sister named Roosi. Karl the raccoon and Viktor the fish are scientists who come to Gadgetville. They are taking part in a big folk song collecting competition. Whoever succeeds in recording the folk song of the world’s oldest animal species, the mythical fire-breathing dragon, wins the competition’s grand prize. Lotte and Roosi decide to help the scientists. Exciting and unexpected adventures await the sisters.

A 10-year old girl's Christmas plans take an unexpected turn after she is brought to a mysterious Estonian farm.

1950년대 에스토니아, 수용소로 간 엄마를 기다리는 여섯 살 ‘렐로'는 엄마와의 약속대로 착한 아이가 되기 위해 빨간 스카프를 두른 '소년단’이 되기로 결심한다. 한편, '렐로'는 자꾸만 집으로 찾아오는 검은 옷을 입은 어른들에게 왜 아빠의 자랑스러운 스포츠 메달을 비밀로 해야 하는지 궁금하기만 한데... '렐로'가 씩씩한 소년단이 되면, 엄마가 입학식 전까지 집으로 돌아올까?

A young man tries to make sense of the world in the summer heat of late nineties Estonia.

제2차 세계대전이 한창이던 1944년, 독일과 소련 사이에 끼어있던 에스토니아 사람들은 조금이라도 더 많은 전력을 확보하고자 하는 두 나라의 힘에 눌려 강제 징병을 당한다. 분명히 한 동포였는데도 불구하고 독일의 ‘무장 친위대’와 소련의 ‘붉은 군단’으로 나뉜 에스토니아 사람들. 총알이 빗발치는 전쟁터에서 ‘카알 토닉’은 자신과 똑 같은 이름을 갖고 있는 ‘카알’과 친구가 되지만 뒤늦게 자신들이 서로 다른 편에 서 있다는 것을 깨닫는다. 서로에게 총을 겨눌 수밖에 없는 적이 된 그들! 역사상 가장 비극적인 전투가 지금 시작된다.

An exploration of the growing friendship between small-town girl Laura, who is persuaded onto a hiking trip by her friend Merit, and Joosep, a middle-aged guide.

This 3D animated opera deals in a socially critical manner with the topic of illegal immigrants fleeing from Africa to Europe and it is also a story of impossible love between orange boy Maroc, a singing boat refugee, and lemon girl Lisa, who collects singing seashells and dreams about love. Maroc is the brave hero-type, bound by prejudice and poverty. Lisa is the daughter of a rich businessman and tomato ketchup plantation owner. Here we have the fruitier version of Romeo and Juliet - a 3D animated operatic extravaganza!

The main character, Helmi, is born into the house of Baron von Strandmann in Old-Town Tallinn, in 1908. The only thing that she knows for sure about her past is that her mother was an Estonian servant girl. Everything else is a discovery during a life that runs the course of a century - a life that has quite a lot of surprises in store for Helmi. In this house she finds happiness and suffering, passion and disappointment. She grows up alongside young Erik and waits for her big love to blossom. But one floor down lives projectionist Julius - a man who is far from indifferent when it comes to Helmi. All of the biggest historical events of the century leave their mark on the house. Its hardwood floors have born soldiers' gruff boots and gentleman's shiny oxfords. Its walls have held the fates of people from far and near, foreigners and locals. Helmi's home becomes a German salon, a revolution museum, and a working class commune. And as freedom comes, real estate crooks start sniffing ...

A three-film cassette, "Daisy Petal Game 2" looks at three different lifetimes where a person is forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives. Such moments come as suddenly and dramatically as the first falling in love. How to deal with these crises in youth, early middle age and golden years?

스탈린의 공포 정치를 겪은 ‘알리드’는 고향 사람들이 숱하게 시베리아로 강제 추방 당한 가운데 홀로 살아 남아 수십 년째 외딴 집을 지키고 있다. 어느날 밤, 그녀는 러시아 마피아에게 붙잡혀 성 노예로 착취 당하다가 극적으로 탈출한 소녀 ‘자라’를 발견한다. 상처받은 두 여인이 서로를 알아가는 가운데, 에스토니아가 구 소련의 지배하에 있던 시절, 한 가족이 견뎌야 했던 비극이 밝혀진다. 남자를 지키기 위한 한 여자의 기나긴 형벌의 시간.. 형부를 사랑한 죄로, 형부를 살리기 위해 숱한 고문을 견디고 심지어 소련 경찰과 결혼까지 하게 된 ‘알리드’. 사랑하면 안 되는 한 남자를 사랑해서 모진 아픔의 시간을 견디며 살아왔던 그녀는 친언니의 손녀 ‘자라’가 찾아오면서 또다시 격동의 인생을 맞게 된다.

Plucky young Lotte embarks on an adventure with her uncle Klaus to solve the mystery of three stones that a pair of hooded figures are attempting to retrieve.

Aggivald, 23, is living in a suburban boiler-house that is fuelled by books - books without endings. The biggest passion for the young man is to write a new ending for each book. Aggivald doesn't know that his family has a story of its own, a story that reaches back to the Soviet time and has no ending either.

Seventeen-year-old Rass is growing up in an Estonian suburb. In the absence of a solid home life his family becomes a group of youngsters who are verging on being thieves. Drugs are an inseparable part of their lives, and when Rass agrees to distribute them, he gets tangled up in the narcotics trade. Small amounts suddenly become two-kilo packages that the mafia, to the misfortune of all involved, has not been paid for, and is ready to collect on by force…

A rich businessman moves to countryside to give his life a meaning.

Somewhere in Europe by a great sea stands a small village, where inventing all manner of domestic gadgets is held in great esteem. The villagers organize an annual competition of new inventions. One of the best inventors in the village is Oskar, the father of the energetic girl dog Lotte. His primary rival is Adalbert the Hare. Victory in this competition is very important as it would bring honour to the entire family.

Three friends return from a vacation and discover that the TV studio they work for has gone bankrupt - so they decide to start their own costume renting business.

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Estonia is a silly place, perhaps even sillier than the agents themselves. Frank and Wendy, for whom saving the world is their daily work, achieve both mental and manual feats with the greatest of ease. It appears that nothing can prevent their ultimate victory, but go figure. The axis of evil does not wither and attacks the super-agents from where they can least expect it...

Based on an acclaimed 1935 novel about the War of Liberation (1918-1920) that ensured Estonia's independence, the film tells about a group of young schoolboys heading to the front to fight the army of Soviet Russia.

In the follow-up of Estonian classics "Kevade" (1969) and "Suvi" (1976) the same characters have reached their middle-age. Everybody are living quiet family-life but Kiir the tailor who one more time decides to become a farmer and get married.

Human life in the absurd of the everyday